Why Electronic Voting Can Be A Solution To Election Manipulation.

[Exitoral]

How many Nigerians are exposed to the internet? Not quite much. Nigeria is suffering from blackout too frequently and I am pretty sure on that day, many people phones won't be charged. And again the site or app they are going to use will definitely have problems. You know how INEC do. I am 💯 sure that there will be a glitch and the party that bribed more will win. I never believed in this democracy of a thing. And I still don't believe in it. There are too many loopholes with democracy that I hate.

[Qhunman]

I believe Electronic casting of votes will reduce elections malpractices during elections.  Votes buying, changing of results or snatching of ballots boxes will be prevented and Nigerians won't have to risk their lives trying to protect their votes against votes snatchers or get killed by those paid APC happy trigger police officers.

Our leaders knows exactly what to do to ensure a smooth, transparent, free and  fair election but they wouldn't do it because they might be voted out when they don't perform well.  I believe that  Free and fair elections can be conducted in Nigeria if our leaders meant it.

[Alvin_talk]

We keep talking about politicians investing heavily on hackers, do you know how much is the budget of INEC? Don’t you think that INEC can hire the best cybersecurity experts in the world? this talk of hackers is one thing that the politicians are using to talk done on the issue of electronic voting in Nigeria.

So who appoints the INEC chairman? Of course its the incumbent president. That means the presidency (corrupt Tinibu as we all know) can appoint someone who aligns with their negative political interest and motives as the INEC chairman. This already neutralises your point, because such an INEC chairman will be the one to help rig the election electronically with part of their so called budget.

Assuming INEC in Nigeria is fully independent such that they organise and elect their leaders among themselves, then the president will have little to no control, meaning that we can be sure that if we organise an electronic voting election,  we are sure the incumbent president will not influence the chairman to interfer with the result in any way. But it is unfortunate that's not the case.

[Judith87403]

That's very good idea as it will reduce ballot snatching and thugs harassing voter's and it will help a lot as people will be free to vote whom they choose without being bribe or threatened, but I think Nigerian electoral system is something else they will never agree to this system of voting and even if they do agree I'm sure they will still device means to hack INEC sever and those at the village might not really have the access to vote as the use of this gadget isn't accessible to them.

True, if INEC employs electronic voting it will be very good because the cost of running elections will reduce in the sense that the resources that INEC spends on logistics of electoral officers will not be done again and NYSC members won't also be risking their lives during elections where they face harassment in the polling units and some of them are even killed in the process. If elections are done using electronic system, there will be irregularities but it won't be so severe as it is in physical voting. Nigeria is big enough to provide a transparent medium of casting votes during elections but just as you said, the Senate may not approve it because they know it will affect a lot of them.

[Anayochukwu]

This would have been a great idea especially for the younger generations that are fighting for change but it still won't work, what about the elderly people that has no access to Mobile phone how will they vote? There's nothing wrong with the normal way of voting and I honestly think that inec is the reason for every bad leader we have been getting and if the bad people in inec are not removed there won't be any positive changes because they decide every results and they have the power to manipulate the results to favor the people they want, we all need to put our eyes and ears more on inec and hold them accountable and put pressure on them. Electric voting isn't the solution because they will still find a way to rig the results we just need to stand together as one and watch the inec closely.